The ballistic missile launched by North Korea on Monday was a new type of intermediate-range hypersonic missile and it successfully flew 1,500 kilometers to a simulated target at sea, the country's official media reported.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who oversaw the test together with his daughter through a monitoring system, was quoted by the Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday as saying the test-firing of the new missile was "mainly aimed to steadily put the country's nuclear war deterrent on an advanced basis."The Japanese Defense Ministry and the South Korean military have said th…READ FULL ARTICLE
